AW: disk error / failure: need help! (smart failure predicted)

[mario]

Unfortunately things get fuzzy here.
I usually run single partitions
and have not had a problem with it not working.
However, this maybe due to a previous installation
having done the boot sector.
I reuse my drives a lot due to frequent setup changes.

Take a look at this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
[snip]
# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 device
[/snip]

Of course, i usually try to give this kinda stuff a test run before
doing it on a hot system.

have fun

> thanks so far!
>
> and this also works for the boot secotor where the systems boots of?
>
> thanks,
> arie
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org]Im Auftrag von Mario Theodoridis
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2003 06:45
> An: voytovich_slava at land.ru
> Cc: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org; iaccounts at northnetworks.ca
> Betreff: Re: disk error / failure: need help! (smart failure predicted)
>
>
>> Hi !
>>
>> Does it need that the disks have the same geometry?
>>
>> Slava
>>
>
> i don't know about dd.
> As for dump, i've used it locally as well as remotely
> to back up entire partitions and as long as the target partition,
> which you need to format before hand, is big enough for the actual data,
> i've never had problems.
>
> For me this usually looks like this:
> [root at quack ~]#mount /dev/adwhatever /mountpoint
> [root at quack ~]#cd /mountpoint
> [root at quack /mountpoint]#dump 0f - / | restore -rf -
>
> hope it helps :)
>

mario;>

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